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1 Ungersk Gyllen - Erik XIV
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1568 |
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| Value | 1 Goldgulden (2.5) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ERIC • 14 D : G • REX • SWECIE .1568. (Translation: Erik XIV by the grace of God king of Sweden) |
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Erik XIV struck this piece during one of the most turbulent stretches of Swedish sixteenth-century rule. By 1568, his mental instability had become politically untenable — he had personally ordered the murder of several members of the Sture family the previous year during a psychotic episode — and his brother John was organizing the rebellion that would depose him that autumn. The coin was minted into a reign already collapsing.
Surviving examples are genuinely scarce. Erik was imprisoned in September 1568 and died in captivity in 1577, almost certainly poisoned.